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• Cambodians mark Anger Day

  
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  | | Related Cambodian woman devotes life to healing war scars 10/10/2012 11:06 CET Former Khmer Rouge soldier faces up to past 03/10/2012 11:26 CET Fighting the war’s inheritance in Cambodia 01/10/2012 11:22 CET Khmer Rouge First Lady set free 16/09/2012 16:31 CET ...
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• GrubHub And Seamless To Form Food Delivery Supercompany

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 648
  GrubHub and Seamless Web are two of the biggest players in the growing online food-ordering industry, catering to those of us who would rather not deal with looking up menus then going through the ritual of reciting our orders over the phone. Today, the two companies announced their intent to merge and save people the ...
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• Manhunt pc games 2013

  
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  Manhunt Manhunt(2004) You wake up in a panic, deafened by his own breath.You must run, hide, survive.These are bloody and brutal rule of the game.America is full of bleak industrial towns, where there is permissiveness.In solitary confinement City appreciates only the thrill of the most powerful of them – playing ...
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• Executed for treason, in the United States and Iran

  
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  Executions for treason and terrorism in the United States and Iran, left to right: -Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for treason in the United States -Timothy McVeigh, executed for terrorism in the United States -Koroush Ahmadi, executed for treason in Iran
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• Iran Hangs Two Men for Spying for CIA and Mossad

  
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  Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence reported today two men convicted for spying for the CIA and Mossad in a revolutionary court were hanged today. Kourosh Ahmadi and Mohammad Heidari were accused of providing intelligence on Iran to the CIA and Mossad respectively. The intelligence ministry’s report did not say ...
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• 399 BCE: Socrates

  
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  It might have been May 19, 399 BCE* — and if not, we’re in the neighborhood — that the original gadfly** philosopher Socrates obeyed a death sentence from his native Athens and quaffed a cup of deadly hemlock . It’s one of the most famous executions in history, and arguably one of the most consequential . ...
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• The Words of Farzad Kamanger

  
  Alliance for Kurdish Rights — Authority: 131
  On May 9, 2010 five political prisoners were executed in Iran, all sentenced with “enmity against God.” Four of them were Kurds: Farzad Kamanger, Shirin Alam Hooli, Ali Heydarian and Farhad Vakili. They fought for the rights of the Kurdish people in Iran and were punished with execution like many other freedom ...
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• 1858: William and Daniel Cormack, for murdering John Ellis

  
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  “Land agents” — the rent-squeezing fist of distant landlords — were not popular people in Ireland. These bill collectors literally ran people out of house and home: one late 19th century land agent in Ireland recalled in his memoirs having received over a hundred threatening letters and, in November 1884, ...
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• 1794: Elisabeth of France, sister of the king

  
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  The 25-strong batch dispatched to the guillotine on the Place de la Revolution during the Terror on this date in 1794 included Princess Elisabeth, the sister of the late guillotined King Louis XVI . Princess Elisabeth ( English Wikipedia entry | French ) was the staunch conservative * of her family’s ...
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• Human Bones Found in Kurdish Cities in Turkey

  
  Alliance for Kurdish Rights — Authority: 131
  Kurdistan is a region whose residents have not had the right to choose a long life with natural death for decades. Kurds have been exposed to numerous crimes against humanity ever since Kurdistan, their country, was divided into four parts and shared by the four states of the Middle East – Turkey, Iraq, Iran and ...
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• 1979: Rahim Ali Khorram and Habib Elghanian, millionaire businessmen

  
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  Iranian Revolution firing squads claimed seven lives on this date in 1979, including two multimillionaire businessmen. One of the businessmen was Rahim Ali Khorram , “an immensely rich contractor who built roads and airports for the government, and sometimes used his 2,000-man work force as a political shock force ...
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• 1979: Twenty-one by revolutionary courts of the Iranian Revolution

  
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  At 5 a.m. today, 21 people were shot in Tehran by sentence of the previous day’s revolutionary court — the largest mass-execution since the Iranian Revolution three months prior. “Revolutionary courts consolidate the gains of the revolution,” exulted an official newspaper . While the bulk of this morning’s ...
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• 1937: Camillo Berneri, anarchist intellectual

  
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  On this date in 1937, the Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri was kidnapped from his home by in Barcelona by armed paramilitaries. Berneri was shot that night. Berneri ( English Wikipedia entry | Spanish | timeline ) had once been a University of Florence professor, but was forced into exile for opposing the ...
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• 1996: Ravji Rao aka Ramchandra, on questionable jurisprudence

  
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  India’s recent re-entry into the death penalty club makes this an apt occasion to recall a past generation when that country was a somewhat more willing hangman than it has been in recent years. Ravji was among India’s last hangings prior to the near-moratorium in India in the first years of the 21st ...
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• Maryland Repeal Signed Into Law

  
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  "OMalley signs death penalty repeal," is by Michael Dresser for the Baltimore Sun. There is video at the link. Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin...
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• 1664: Elsje Christiaens, Rembrandt model

  
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  On or about this date in 1664, a Danish teenager named Elsje Christiaens was strangled at Amsterdam for murder. The date is a little shaky; I don’t know if it’s directly documented (the verdict, we know, came down on May 1 ). Whenever the execution took place was, it culminated an extremely short stay in ...
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• 1883: Heinrich “Henry” Furhmann, oldest hanged in Montana

  
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  (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1883, Heinrich “Henry” Furhmann was hanged in Helena in the then-territory of Montana. He was the first person hanged in that city, and at seventy years old, the oldest person ever executed in Montana. A ...
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• Law Day USA

  
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  Tomorrow morning, Governor OMalley is finally going to sign the bill abolishing the death penalty in Maryland.  Its about time.  I mean, the guy pushed and pushed for the law, finally got it enacted, and now hes waited more than a month to sign the thing.  (OK, I know absolutely nothing about Marylands legislative ...
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• Justice key to Kurdish peace process

  
  Alliance for Kurdish Rights — Authority: 131
  Human Rights Watch has released a video that calls attention to the state killings and disappearances of Kurdish civilians in the 1990s committed by Turkey. It highlights the importance for immediate action to be taken in regard to the torture, disappearances and killings of Kurdish civilians that have never been ...
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• 1900: Bill Brown, Sonnie Crain and John Watson

  
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  (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1900, Sonnie (or Sonny) Crain and William “Bill” Brown, both 40, and John Watson, 59, were hanged side by side a quarter-mile from the Warren County Jail in McMinnville, Tennessee. This was an integrated execution: Brown ...
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